Sunday, November 29, 2009

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] NEWLY INSTALLED APPLICATIONS

 

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 22:35, Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> <snip>
> Note that to do that, you have to run the updatedb command.  Many
> systems have it done by default as a cronjob, but you might have to do
> it manually.
>
> The locate command goes through a database that is created by the
> aforementioned updatedb command, therefore, it is very fast, but only as
> current as the last database.

Yikes... Thanks Scott. I said that... in the original draft, but
apparently I deleted that along with some other stuff I removed before
I hit send...

sheesh...

Jeff
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